With a football helmet in hand, Rep. Eddie Lucio III, D-San Benito, won preliminary approval from the House today for a bill to ensure school districts keep close tabs on how often helmets are checked and repaired.
House Gives Helmet Safety Bill Early Approval
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Criminal Justice
Supreme Court Stays First Pentobarbital Execution
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a 30-day stay for death row inmate Cleve Foster, who was scheduled tonight to become the first Texas inmate executed using the state’s new three-drug lethal injection cocktail.
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Guides
Texplainer: Are All Committee Meetings Televised?
Generally, committee meetings are open to the public and recorded — one way or another.
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Interactive: How Much Texas University Administrators Are Paid
How much were Texas public university administrators paid in 2009-10? Check out our visualization, using data generously provided by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Health care
Study: Health Reform’s Effects On Texas
If federal health care reform stays on the books, it will help 5 million Texans get health insurance and increase state health care spending by roughly 10 percent in the next five years, according to the RAND Corporation.
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The Brief: Top Texas News for April 5, 2011
The gulf between the House and Senate over budget cuts may be widening.
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Interactive: Hotze/CRT Donations: 2009-10
This bubble chart represents contributions made by Steve Hotze and his political action committee, Conservative Republicans of Texas.
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Health care
Updated: Hospitals, Advocates at Odds Over Preemie Bills
Lawmakers agree that curbing elective inductions of labor and so-called “convenience” cesarean sections would prevent premature births and save the state money. But how best to do it has left child welfare advocates and hospitals at odds.
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Demographics
Fight Brewing Over Seized Drug Money
The Texas Department of Public Safety says it has seized as much as $140 million of the $28 billion that moves annually from the U.S. into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. Mario Carrillo of KUT News and ReportingTexas.com reports on what happens to that seized money and how some would like to see it used.
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Health care
Doctor Legislation Raises Safety Concerns, Questions of Motive
Are Texas doctors hamstrung by unfounded complaints? Reps. Bill Zedler and Fred Brown think so. But the bills they’ve filed to address the issue are largely opposed by the state’s biggest physician organization.
